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Good morning, Playbookers. I'm Rogumonovalin. It's Friday. Today's show, a name you haven't

heard much about lately, Donald Trump. It's your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

For a minute there, Donald Trump wasn't the dominant political story. In between peak coverage

in August of the FBI search

of its Mar-a-Lago home and Thursday's public vote by the January 6th Committee to subpoena the former

president, there were long stretches when Trump wasn't the main character of the midterms. In some ways,

he still isn't. As Blake Hounshel and Alice McFadden from the New York Times point out,

January 6th is practically invisible on the nation's airwaves,

despite nearly a billion dollars in overall ad spending this year.

Politico's, Jordan Carney, Sarah Ferris, and Ali Mutnik note that Democrats have aired just two dozen spots focused on threats to democracy this cycle in roughly 16 different battleground districts. But even if he didn't appear in a single ad, and there are plenty that include him,

Trump still looms over everything in politics.

A new investigation from the New York Times reveals that about 70% of Republicans running for Congress

had questioned the election of President Biden, and nearly two-thirds are favored to win their races.

That's according to the Cook Political Report.

He's seemingly the only subject of top nonfiction books.

Maggie Haberman's Confidence Man, The Making of Donald Trump, and the Breaking of America,

debuted at number one this week on the New York Times bestseller list.

Just a few weeks ago, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser's The Divider, Trump in the White House,

2017-21, debuted at number two.

And yet, another blockbuster is out on Tuesday, unchecked, the untold story behind Congress's

botched impeachments of Donald Trump, written by Playbooks very own Rachel Bade and the

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